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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
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New Gold-Bears album. Theyre on slumberland, so you know theyve gotta be good.
GOLD-BEARS - Are You Falling In Love
--- Quote ---Gold-Bears, former Plastic Mastery frontman Jeremy Underwood's new band, are not a million miles away from what he used to do with his previous group -- maybe a little noisier and more intense. Are You Falling in Love? is very wordy, very melodic, and fairly jumps out the speakers and into your heart. Underwood tears through the words like he’s rushing to get them out before he collapses, telling tales of record store love affairs, twisted nostalgia, post-sex contemplation of life’s great mysteries, and general unease and desperation. His thin voice cuts through the busy, overdriven, and often thrilling mix of fuzzy guitars and massed voices like a sob, conveying all kinds of passion and pain without going overboard. It’s a little like a bargain-basement version of Arcade Fire or a less convoluted Neutral Milk Hotel; the album has the same kind of drama and heightened sense of emotion and occasion those bands worked so hard to achieve. It feels like there is definitely something important at stake for Underwood and the band, there is great commitment and dedication in the way they sing and play. Unlike the aforementioned bands, though, the small-scale sound of the record and Underwood’s more precise lyrical approach make the album easier to embrace on a personal level. In other words, there’s no chance the band will be playing stadiums or inspiring breathless cult followings anytime soon, and that’s OK. It’s enough that Are You Falling in Love? is the kind of record you can play when you’re feeling kinda messed up/mixed up and it might make you feel better, like you aren’t alone. And the album contains a bunch of songs like "Record Store," "All Those Years," and "Totally Called It" that will sound great blasting out of a radio on a lazy summer day. Emotion-wracked, ultra-melodic, and filled with jams (both fast and slow), this is an impressive debut from a band that could easily end up reaching some seriously lofty heights.
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yop:
--- Quote ---'Pandora's Box' is an addendum to last years 'Crystal Republic', also out on the fine Hour House Is Your Rush label. It's *not* his debut album, but an eight track collection of wide-ranging House styles tied up with Tevo's trademark melodic touch and crisp drum programming. Highlights would be the Italo-tweaked 'Spend Some Time', the luscious 'Intersection' and his romantic jazz note 'Autumn Spell (Top Shelf September Mix)'. Top quality.
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Lovely oldschool vibes with some nice melodic touches.
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IrrationalPie:
Portugal. The Man - In the Mountain, In the Cloud (2011)
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yop:
Various / Strut - Horse Meat Disco III
--- Quote ---London's revered disco institution compile their 3rd annual collection of disco old and new. Includes two 60+ minute mixes and twenty five unmixed nuggets spanning classics from Sylvester, Wham, Idris Muhammad, Gene Chandler and Rose Laurens, to modern moves by Tom Trago, Yam Who?, Glimmers, Wild Geese, Mungolian Jetset and more. Pert.
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3rd volume in the strut compilation series "horse meat disco". recommended!
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yop:
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Radiohead - Good Morning Mr Magpie (Nathan Fake RMX) / Bloom (Harmonic 313 RMX) / Bloom (Mark Pritchard RMX)
--- Quote ---Next up from Radiohead's Tickertape label: two highly accomplished Nathan Fake and Mark Pritchard reworks of tracks from 'The King Of Limbs'. A-side we catch Nathan Fake on a swinging revision of 'Morning Mr Magpie', transposing vocal elements of the original into a feathered 2-step framework buoyed by rich subbass amidst a slow swirling cloud of tingling, slightly dissonant harmonics. B-side you're in for a treat with not one, but two Mark Pritchard remixes of 'Bloom'. Working as Harmonic 313, we're privy to a staggering mesh of fluid slowfast rhythms fluctuating somewhere between Juke and Dubstep, while epic synth washes arc overhead and Thom is turned into a chorus of alien cadence. It's honestly jaw-dropping stuff, and almost a million miles from the urgent version under his own name, taking the same track in the opposite direction down a one-way tunnel of Industrial Krautrock electronics closer to Factory Floor or Chris Carter.
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Pigon - Sunrise Industry ( Efdemin/Rndm)
--- Quote ---Oliver Kargl (Rndm) and Philip Sollmann (Efdemin) regroup as Pigon on four deeply sensuous and experimental Tech-House/Electronic cuts. With 'Painting The Tape' they summon a slinky, minimal shift from effortlessly grooving bass pressure and lilting drum cadence coated with a very healthy amount of tape crackle. On the other hand, 'Sunrise Industry' is more driving and hypnotic, made for the 6am connoisseurs. The two are sandwiched by the more esoteric inclinations of the beatless, twinkling 'Dirty Float' and the charming rhythm trip of 'Flip Over Pill', both recalling the works of NSI.
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Miles - Facets
--- Quote ---*30 minute EP of dismantled Techno, House and squashed electronics from Miles, one half of Demdike Stare* Miles is one half of Demdike Stare and Pendle Coven and has recorded in the past under the aliases Millie and MLZ. After almost 15 years writing music, this is the first release Miles is putting out under his own name and marks a turning point of sorts in his production style, or rather, in its sequencing. 'Facets' brings together different ends of his production style, unifying elements of the House and Techno he’s most commonly released as MLZ together with the more broken production signatures usually reserved for Millie and the darkened tribalism of Demdike Stare. “Flawed” opens the set with a Linn loop from the archives, stretched and slowed down with an intoxicated aesthetic that’s somewhere between House and Dub, before “Lustre” re-configures source material originally keyed in by labelmate Andy Stott with a nice line in squashed percussion. ‘Primer’ on the flip extends from a Demdike Stare outtake and veers off into an analogue drum machine ruckus, before “On The fly” ends the set with a recording made straight to mixing desk from an array of mis-wired and malfunctioning drum boxes, contact microphones and samplers, over at his studio The Mill earlier this year.
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How To Dress Well - Just Once EP
--- Quote ---The highly anticipated 'Just Once EP' is a suite of orchestral reworkings of tracks from the How To Dress Well album, which was released to rapturous acclaim on Tri Angle earlier this year. Conceived as a memorial EP dedicated to his departed friend, Ryan Douglas Hutchon, Tom Krell has rescored three album tracks and one new song 'Suicide Dream 3' with San Francisco's Yours Truly, replacing his gorgeous falsetto from behind the grainy film of murk which covered his album to float against a tenderly plush backdrop of strings and keys. If you're familiar with the album, it may come as a slight shock to hear Tom's vocals executed with such clarity, but the effect soon dissipates and you're left with a heart-wrenching collection of orchestral R&B songs, the plaintive piano accompaniment on 'Suicide Dream 2' being particularly poignant.
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Recloose - Saturday Night Manifesto
--- Quote ---Sophisticated Hi-Tech House music from Recloose. With the refresh of recent reissue for comparison, Recloose is right up-to-the-time with his chops on these three tracks. On the A-side's 'Electric Sunshine' the triplet drums, guitar licks and woozy, sun-baked synths are rendered with an incredible clarity and spaciousness, but this guy has the rare quality of stunning musicianship to add to his production values. On a more upbeat tip, 'Parquet' shakes out a dynamically jazzy and Teched-out House killer, and flipside 'Tecumseh' rides the groove Detroit style, like a dirtier, meaner Shake. Deadly wares.
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first new output in 3 years. highly recommended!!
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